Functional Human NEUROANATOMY
NSC4366
Mondays, 2:00-4:45PM, Room GR4.301
Workshop: Mondays, 11-11:50AM, Room GR2.530
Dr. Larry
Cauller, x2436, e-mail lcauller@utdallas.edu
Office hours
GR4.412 (next to elevators) on Thursday noon-1 or by e-appointment
website http://www.utdallas.edu/~lcauller
Course
Goals:
·Familiarity
with neuroanatomical IMAGES (MRI/CAT/PET scans) and neuro-medical terminology.
·Ability
to locate or identify structures and relate those structures to their FUNCTION.
·Understand
sensory-motor pathways and systems.
·Introduce
Cortical connections and the neural basis of behavior and higher function.
General
description:
·This
course is based upon my teaching experiences at medical schools in Northeastern
Ohio U. and Brown U. It covers the same anatomical concepts and details
as basic medical neuroanatomy courses entitled Functional Human Neuroanatomy
with more of an emphasis upon function and behavior than clinical evaluation.
·The
general approach of the course is to build a cognitive model of the spatial
structure of brain systems and use this model as a mneumonic device to
reference details about the connectional organization, function and typical
diseases of the brain.
·The
style of weekly lectures is to begin with an overview of the system pathways
and fill in the details by spanning scales from neurons to brain.
·Presentations
will employ overheads of figures taken from the new text for this course,
The
Human Brain, by John Nolte. Other figures will be found
in Principles of Neural Science by Kandel and Schwartz (which
is also the text employed in other Neuroscience core courses). You
are not required to buy a text but you should have access to one of these
if you want easy reference to the figures presented in lectures.
Student
evaluation:
·Midterm
(1/3 course grade) and comprehensive Final exams (2/3).The
midterm exam is largely intended to prepare you for the final so it may
be dropped if it pulls down your grade.
·Each
exam will consist of a written portion and a point-out practicum (each
worth 50% of each test grade).
·Written
portions of exams will include > 100 questions in the form of: multiple
choice, true/false, short answers and simple diagrams. (Graduate students
will be required to write answer a short essay question (1-2 hand written
pages)).
·The
point-out practicum will require students to identify structures and their
connections or function on projected slides or MRIs of human brain sections.
·Grading
will be based upon student exam scores in comparison to the database of
scores obtained by hundreds of medical students that have taken virtually
the same exams at NE Ohio U College of Medicine: a B grade must equal or
exceed the mean score obtained by medical students (68%) and an A grade
is equivalent to medical honors (85%).
CLASS
SCHEDULE:
January 10
Introduction to Anatomical Terminology and Images
The
Major Divisions of the Nervous System.
January 17
January
24
Spinal Cord Organization and Reflexes
Ventricles and Circulatory System
January 31
Motor and Somatosensory Pathways
February 7
Brain Stem Structures and Organization
Reticular Formation
Superior Colliculus
February 14
The
Cranial Nerves
February
21
Autonomic Systems
Brainstem Modulatory Systems &Hypothalamus
REVIEW
March 7
SPRING BREAK
March 14
Vestibular System and Auditory System
March 21
Indirect Motor Pathways: Cerebellum
March 28
Indirect
Motor Pathways: Basal Ganglia
April 4
Olfactory
System & The Limbic System
April 11
Visual
System & Cortical Pathways
April 18
Cerebral
Cortex and Higher Function
April 25
OVERALL REVIEW
May 2
FINAL EXAMINATION